You can’t put this possum in a cage
GEORGE JONESI lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
More George Jones Quotes
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I would have loved to had that break, but it never was offered to me, a job in that field, so naturally, I got lost on that other road.
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Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I’m an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I’ve got out there,
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
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Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.
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You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.
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